Rob Hughes

From punk beginnings to Britpop and avant-rock, the Woking Wonder has a thousand things he wants to say to you – and these are his best albums

Change is in the air after perplexing pair drew a line under their past with Origins anthology, and began work on their heaviest and proggiest album to date

"I feel really lucky to be given the opportunity to be truly emotive each night with people who are equally as excited to be there as I am" - Marcus King

Moby Grape had it all, and were poised to be the next truly great band. Then came the rip-offs, the drugs, the madness, and the loss of everything

Taking the blues as their starting point and then giving it a twist, the Black Keys have created an energetic new strand of an old genre

Ministry linchpin Al Jourgensen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what happened when GG Allin threw up on him in an elevator in New York

Andy Warhol, Studio 54, Madison Square Garden and two albums – this is what it was like being in Kiss in 1977

When the going got real tough the Texans kept going. Now they're reaping the rewards

US tour with Focus, Martin Turner and Curved Air presents possibility of completing songs left unfinished after original singer’s death

The Sex Pistols may have got all the headlines and The Clash the critical acclaim, but The Damned trumped them all

Captain Beefheart was an eccentric but hugely influential artist tortured by his failure to break into the mainstream. These are his best albums

The Rolling Stones’ secret weapon throughout their golden period looks back on his time with the band

His four-track concept rock masterpiece is a primer for revolutionary thinking that’s as relevant now as it was in 1971

Tom Morello might be Mr Politics, but the Rage Against The Machine guitarist is proud to fly the geek flag

From The Who’s forgotten singles to unsung solo gems, these are 10 classic Pete Townshend songs you’ll never hear on CSI

As Sheryl Crow airs her most socially charged songs yet on new album Evolution, she looks back on her long and winding road

Graham Bond told people he was the son of Aleister Crowley. His life was blighted by drugs. And on May 8, 1974, he died under a train in North London

Bill Nelson on Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the brilliant five-album career of art-rockers Be-Bop Deluxe

A song whose key line its writer Mike Scott says “floated into my mind as if by magic”, it's still The Waterboys’ signature track and a magic moment live

Written in response to two journalists who said it was good that Keith Moon was dead, it's one of rock’s most spiteful songs

You’ve got to have big balls to do an album of covers of songs from rock’s crown jewels. Or be totally bonkers

Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence wrote his album Oar in a psychiatric ward after threatening his bandmates with an axe. Years after his death, artists still acknowledge its influence